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What are the 4 Biggest and most unique Differences You Need To Know About Seabourn Cruises, and what do they do similar to other ultra-luxury cruise lines they compete with, like Silversea and Regent Seven Seas. I discuss the on-board facilities, features, dining and others aspects of Seabourn cruises to reveal what I think they Seabourn Cruises do best and different to other lines
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I'm Gary Bainbridge this is another of
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my cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk about what Seabourn cruises does
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differently to other ultra luxury cruise
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lines out there Seabourn was founded
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over 30 years ago it's part now of the
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big Carnival Corporation
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so obviously that includes other cruise
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lines that Kullen America princess
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Carnival of course I eat a whole bunch
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of other cruise lines
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Seabourn is a small ship ultra luxury
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cruise line and so its main competitors
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are things like royal Caribbeans silver
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sea cruise lines and Norwegian cruise
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lines Regent 7c they have a relatively
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small fleet with six classic cruise
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ships and two expedition ships on their
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way in the classic fleet there are all
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suite ships and they range in size from
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458 passengers to 600 passengers it's an
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elegant but casual experience onboard so
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let's take a look first of all at what
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Seaborn does very differently to the
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other ultra luxury cruise lines and I'll
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take a little look at what they do the
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same one of the big signatures on
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Seaborn is known as Seabourn square it's
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something that I'm calling out right at
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beginning of this because I think it's a
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really great and a very simple
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innovation but it really works well it's
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the hub of the ship and they've created
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all their ships
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Seabourn square which is where they
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brought together their get services
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their future cruise sales their shore
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excursions and it's a really great
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lounge area there's a really nice cafe
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bar there where you can get great
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specialty coffees which are all included
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in the fare drinks which always includes
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a little snacks there during the day
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they also have all sorts of other things
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in here so if we come and play games in
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here they also have the press reader
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service around the various devices you
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can read papers from all around the
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world it's a great hub it's a great
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place to go the shops are in here so
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it's very social it's a real buzz part
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of the ship and it's great to go into
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Sydney you'll catch up with people meet
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people so Seabourn square is definitely
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something that's a signature of Seabourn
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and they do very differently to other
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cruise lines the second thing that c1
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does very differently is the
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partnerships that they have
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a whole range of partnerships covering
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many many aspects of activities and
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dining on board the ship so let me talk
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about the ones that they do that are
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very different first of all one of the
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partnerships they have is in
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entertainment with Sir Tim Rice the
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famous lyricist and he has created a
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show which run is rolling out across all
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of their fleets which is called an
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evening with Sir Tim Rice and here it
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brings alive famous songs from a wide
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range of musicals and it's narrated by
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him in the dining area they have a
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partnership with a very well-known
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celebrity chef and restauranteur Thomas
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Keller and you see his influence in a
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number of ways across the ship so they
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have a very specific restaurant which is
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called the grill by Thomas Keller but he
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has also created dishes which are in the
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main restaurant and even in the informal
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dining in the colonnade out on the patio
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so right across the restaurant you'll
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find dishes which are created by Thomas
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Keller they also have a partnership in
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the whole wellness and fitness area with
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Andrew Weil he's very well known in the
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US and they run a whole lot of fitness
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classes wellness class was yoga mindful
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classes on board they have this very
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specific person running that program
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which is the mindful living coach when
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it comes to drink they have a
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partnership with a mixologist called
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Brian van Flandern and they have a whole
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new menu of really fantastic cocktails
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right across the ship
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two of the partnerships which I am
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really big fans of are the following
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first of all they have a partnership
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with molten brown which create the most
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amazing toiletry products and they have
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a very specific molten Brown Seabourn
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product with its Seabourn fragrance
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which you have in your cabin and around
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the ship the second partnership which I
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think is a really great one when it
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comes to excursions which they have a
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partnership with UNESCO this shows up in
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a number of different ways there are
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over 250 Shore experiences across the
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fleet covering 170 UNESCO designated
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sites there are two groups of excursions
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that are created in partnership with
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UNESCO the first of these are excursions
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that were specifically created as a
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result of this partnership and these are
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called the
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Seabourn world heritage tours and here
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they will go and visit different GSK
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sites and on some of them you'll
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actually have a real expert from for
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example one i went on recently we had a
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lecturer from one of the local
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universities taking us around some of
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the historical sites the second group of
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excursions are called Seabourn discovery
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tours so these are tours that did exist
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too often world heritage sites would
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have now been in heart and attitude with
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more influence and more input from
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unesco also depending on the cruise
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you're on speakers will be brought on
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board with specific unesco heritage and
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knowledge and that they will run
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lectures as part of the Seabourn
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conversations program Seabourn
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conversations being the ongoing
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enrichment program that takes place
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across all cruises on Seabourn the
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Seabourn has some partnerships with real
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leading lights in their area to
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influence and bring alive in a different
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way the onboard experience on the ships
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the other thing which is very unique and
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different on Seabourn is a couple of
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special events or signature events that
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they have and the tour and to talk about
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is first of all evening under the stars
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these are events out on the pool deck
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and it's sort of like a big food hall is
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created and all the officers serve you
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so there's all lots of different
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stations out on the deck and a huge
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range of food deserts all sorts of
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things going on cocktails being made and
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it's one of their big signature events
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and normally happen at least once on a
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cruise the other big signature event
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that Seabourn have which tents happen in
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places like the caribbean is caviar in
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the surf where they will come up with
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beautiful silver trays carry on and
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serve it as it the name suggests right
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there on the beach in the sea the next
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area that sea bone does slightly
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differently to the others is in the area
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of special dining and there's two things
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that i really want to draw attention to
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and again it differs a little bit based
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on what ship you're on first of all you
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have that grill by thomas keller this is
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really a way of recreating the famous
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american diner and the menus of the 50s
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and the 60s and he has reinvented many
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of the famous dishes and it's
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beautiful venue on most of the ships
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beautiful day core so it's a really
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great place to dine it's especially
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dining and it's included within your
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fare the other special dining option
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which I really like is sushi so they
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have a sushi restaurant on many other
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ships and it's included in the fare it's
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open most days for lunch open for dinner
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and magnificent sushi and certainly it's
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normally hosted and run by Japanese real
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sushi masters so let me talk a little
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bit now about some of the things that
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Seabourn do extremely well but are quite
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similar or the same as some of the other
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ultra luxury cruise lines well first of
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all let's talk about the overall
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experience
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it's ultra luxury it's very premium its
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elegant and it's refiner this is very
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similar to the other competitors so the
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cruising experience is fairly
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traditional you'll find on board the
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ships even those smaller ships there's a
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good passenger to space ratio there's a
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very high crew to passenger ratio so you
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get very high levels of service and
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services not stuffy it's quite informal
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it's very you know immaculate and smart
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but it is not fussy and in-your-face you
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have high quality food you have a very
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luxury experience everything's very
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premium very detailed conscious and very
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very high quality
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as you'd expect for an ultra luxury line
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and the sort of fares that you're paying
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the dress code as with the others is
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elegant it's relatively casual so it's
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not lots of dressing up and people will
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tend to dress quite smartly but it's not
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a very strict formal dress code most
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evenings are called elegant casual you
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will have the gala formal nights but
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again it's not massive just up you might
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find people dress up in suits and ties
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but it's not overly formal as with all
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their little true luxury lines the fares
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are pretty all-inclusive so you'll find
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your drinks speciality teas coffees
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dining all that seem to do to teas are
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all included there any things you're
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gonna find extra will be Wi-Fi and
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excursions they are really the only
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extras that you can have on board when
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it comes to accommodation it is all
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suite accommodation what they don't have
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which some of the other lines have is
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butters in every single suite you don't
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have buttons for every single suite but
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it is an all suite experience and on the
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new ships it's also all balcony
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experience the other thing which is
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fairly similar is like many
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of the ultra-luxury lines it's moving
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into expedition cruising it did do
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solitaire search would head down say
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into the article region but it doesn't
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have the size of ship with able to do
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landings they're now moving into
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expedition cruising specifically Seaborn
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are an ultra luxury small ship cruise
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line they do a whole bunch of things
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that are very different to their
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competitors
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I love Seaborn it's a really beautiful
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experience great ships great service and
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those little extras are really quite
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fantastic remember have loads more
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videos with lots of stuff about cruising
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Seabourn all sorts of cruise lines so
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why don't you watch another one of those
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right now
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